Revisiting a show you loved the first time is always a dicey business. But Jamie Wax knows his stuff. There is topical new local material in "Goin' to Jackson, " Wax's one-man, five-character show at Le Chat Noir. Punchlines include Mayor Ray Nagin, NOAH, Lee Zurik's eyebrows and the new houses being built "like an Epcot version of the 9th Ward; it's a small ward after all."

Basically, though, the show is the same, only better. A bizarre doctor at the East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson ("The Bellevue of the South") introduces four patients competing to be a mental health spokesperson and earn early release: